How fielding could cost India the Women's World Cup 2025?

Overview

• The Indian Women's Cricket Team start as one of the favorites to win the Women's World Cup 2025
• Their batting and bowling have improved a lot, which helped them win series against England and South Africa
• The Indian Women's team's weakness is their fielding, which could potentially cost them their maiden World Cup win

The Indian Women's Cricket Team start as one of the favorites to win the Women's Cricket World Cup 2025. Their batting and bowling have improved a lot, which helped them win series against England and South Africa. The Indian Women's team's weakness is their fielding, which could potentially cost them their maiden World Cup win.

Fielding is one of the most important aspects of the game. A dropped catch could lead to a major innings from an opponent batter, which have multiple examples in history. Compared to other top teams in the world like Australia, England, South Africa, and New Zealand, the Indian women's team's fielding is rather highly below par.

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The Indian fielders often drop sitters and are not good in the ground fielding ether. Their direct throws are not highly efficient, which makes them a team dependent on the primary skills of the players. Comparatively, the Australian, English, South African, and the Kiwi women do not field as bad, which coulf give them an advantage against India.

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Having said that, India has improved a lot in the primary skills. The bowling attack has become better compared to it was the last few years ago. The spin attack could be decisive in home conditions. Many of the bowlers can contain runs and take wickets, especially in spin-friendly conditions.

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Their batting has improved as well, considering the coinsistency of some of the batters. Smriti Mandhana has been in the form of her life. Pratika Rawal can anchor the innings, but must be able to strike better. Jemimah Rodriguez, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur, and Richa Ghosh have all been in a fine form in the last few months.